Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each week's winning entry will be published on Wednesday. Entries for that week must be received by the Limerick Editor at the CRIMSON not later than Monday morning. Later entries will be considered in the following week's contest. Each week's winner will receive 1 (one) dollar...
...Greek. An Alabaman nearing his 33rd year, he organized his first dance orchestra at the University of North Carolina about 15 years ago. That band would play anywhere for $32.50 an evening. Skinnay Ennis, Saxie Dowell and Ben Williams were in that band. It won a college dance-orchestra contest sponsored by a vaudeville circuit, played before the Prince of Wales in England as a prize, and from then on it was "varsity...
Sport Geography. The U. S. game of football captured first the East, then the Midwest, then the Pacific Coast. As its conquest went on, great football teams sprang up in region after region to contest the supremacy of the sections where football first reigned. To the South football came later than to any other section. The University of Virginia, which is generally credited with starting the modern game of football in the South, sent a team to try out the North in 1890, two decades after the first intercollegiate game was played in New Brunswick, N. J. The test...
...mination against liberal finance, but the big banks forced through a policy of passing the peace pipe to President Roosevelt (TIME, Nov. 5, 1934). Next year in convention at New Orleans this same issue boiled over in an action almost unprecedented in A. B. A. history-a hot contest for election of officers. By A. B. A. procedure each year's president is actually selected two years ahead when he is chosen for the job of second vice president, thence moving up according to custom to vice president and president. At the New Orleans convention two years ago outspoken...
...House took a 7-0 decision from Dunster. Although they fumbled on the opening kickoff, the Puritans trned back Dunster's early bid and came back strong to outplay the Deacons throughout the rest of the game. The lone touchdown was rung up in the second half of the contest after a steady march...